Cabinet Office

Pay

lord green of deddington: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of workers in the UK who are paid more than £21,000 a year.

lord young of cookham: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.  Letter from John Pullinger, National Statistician, to The Lord Green, dated 9 January 2019.  Dear Lord Green,As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the estimate of the number of workers in the UK is who are paid more than £21,000 a year (HL12559).The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings [1] (ASHE), carried out in April each year is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE is used to produce estimates of the number of employee jobs, which are defined as those held by employees and not the self-employed. Please note that ASHE is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records. Consequently, individuals with more than one job may appear in the sample more than once.The estimate of employee jobs earning more than £21,000 per year in April 2018 [2] (the latest period for which ASHE estimates are available) in the UK is 12,826,000. This estimate includes apprentices and is based upon employees that have been in their current job for at least a year and are on an adult rate of pay. Yours sincerely, John Pullinger  [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/previousReleases[2] 2018 data are provisional.

Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

baroness donaghy: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people who beginto apply for Universal Credit do not complete the process; and what assessment they have made of the possible reasons why those people do not complete that process.

baroness buscombe: Based on our internal data for March 2018, in total 28 per cent of claims do not complete the process. Of this figure around 8 per cent of claims were closed due to non-entitlement, for example because of capital or not passing the Habitual Residence Test. The remainder (around 19 per cent*) were closed due to non-compliance with the process, for example failure to sign a Claimant Commitment and failing to provide evidence to support their claim. * percentages do not add up to 28 per cent due to rounding